User talk:Melburnian/Archive 3


 * Archive 1 – Nov 2005 - Mar 2008
 * Archive 2 – April 2008 - Jan 2009

Welcome back
Good to see your contributions on my watchlist again these last few days. Hesperian 10:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the welcome :) Melburnian (talk) 10:59, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Quercus & dab page
FYI, I moved the portion of the history relevant to the dab page over to Quercus (disambiguation)...if nothing else, it leaves the other obscure meanings in the page history at the dab page, rather than at Quercus proper. Guettarda (talk) 15:10, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I understand how you're trying to keep the disambiguation edits together but then part of the history of Quercus becomes "lost". There's always a compromise no matter which way you do it. Thanks for the note. Melburnian (talk) 00:10, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I kept all the Quercus related history at Quercus and only moved the edits related to the dab page over to Quercus (disambiguation). Guettarda (talk) 03:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I just mean "lost" from the revision history of Quercus (the disambiguation edits formerly at Quercus are indeed all intact at Quercus (disambiguation), but I'm just rambling so feel free to ignore me :) Melburnian (talk) 05:35, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

February 2009
Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits.
 * Disagreement isn't vandalism. Please sign your posts. Thank you. Melburnian (talk) 23:56, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Melburnian -- feel free, of course, to ignore the above bogus and ill-advised warning, since your editing has been constructive without fail. Query:  do you know what mechanism towns in Australia use to incorporate, or give themselves the status of gazetted entities?  I wanted to use the correct terminology on the talk page for Marysville, Victoria.  Unless the town charter (or what you call it in Victoria) is abolished, the town continues to exist, as I will try to explain politely to Avala in a moment.  Antandrus  (talk) 00:00, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I've addressed this point on the talk page. Hesperian 01:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Melburnian (talk) 02:50, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I issued a warning to a user who made an edit that consisted only of removing 10 references and nothing else. If he wants to be constructive he should attempt to reword, or try to do something rather than remove content. Removing references is none of the actions that I would consider benign. It doesn't mean I was looking to get anyone blocked or labeled as a vandal, I just wanted for this user to pay attention so he would know that he made a mistake and hopefully in the future he will make constructive rather than destructive edits. If he couldn't contribute to the article, if the only action he came up with at that moment was to hit the delete button ten times, then he should have refrained from making that edit. That's all. Hopefully this clears my position.--Avala (talk) 11:44, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * While we're on the subject of "paying attention", are you aware that the substance of Melburnian's edit was the removal of the false claim that Marysville is no longer a town? I guess you must not have noticed that, else your assertion that his edit "consisted only of removing 10 references and nothing else" would be a blatant lie. Also on the subject of "paying attention", did you notice that Melburnian gave a rationale for the removal in his edit summary? I guess you must not have noticed, else you would not have used a template that is clearly inappropriate in the circumstances, since it contains the text "without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary". Oh, and I guess you haven't paid much attention to WP:UTM, else you would know that, this being Melburnian's first "offense", you should have hit him with uw-delete1 not uw-delete2. Clearly you need to work on paying attention yourself; may I suggest you practice on WP:DTTR. Hesperian 12:08, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Mel*anth*aceae
I have just now (finally) discovered that neither Melianthaceae nor Melanthiaceae are misspellings of the other. Whoever lumbered us with that horrid pair of doppelgangers should be sentenced to six month correcting mis-sorted stub tags. Hesperian 23:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
 * How thoughtless of them, Hesiperan. Melburnian (talk) 03:55, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * My revenge: I'll discover and describe an extremely unusual plant, something that will need a monotypic family... and I'll name it Oopsada. Hesperian 05:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That's a pretty time-consuming and obscure revenge against a dead botanist. :) Melburnian (talk) 05:59, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I should think by now you would know that I'm down with "time-consuming and obscure". Hesperian 06:03, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

[jumping to conclusions based on your contribs] yes, I looked long and hard at rufistylis too. The leaves fit, the distribution fits, the bracts definitely fit. The flowers are in very early bud; is it possible that the styles are hidden within the perianth-tube, so that one cannot tell whether they are rufi or not?

List of localities in Victoria (Australia)
As you have seen I have finally made good my threat of redoing this list (and renaming it)-fairly complete, a few places yet unlocated and may be some neighbourhoods placed in the wrong locality (on the other side of road or creek etc) so could use some help on this (All the spelling is OK though)- Many of the linked articles where all the info. is supposed to be will need some work but I will be doing this shortly. Could it be 2 or 3 page list?? If so, I dont know how to achieve this. Thanks for your help, Millers Forest is obviously a mistake which dates back to 1912 Post Office lists, placed by error in Victoria so we can forget that one(Epistemos (talk) 04:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)).

from
I have been racking my brains trying to comprehend the reason given here.
 * Dryandra sp. 1 (A.S. George 16647) is a nomenclatural synonym of Dryandra acanthopoda A.S.George.
 * Reason: From A.S.George 7.12.1993 S.Curry 17.1.1994

All I have come up with is that "S.Curry" is Suzanne Curry. Any ideas? Hesperian 12:49, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

For a while there I was working on the theory that "A.S.George 7.12.1993" referred to the specimen (by collector and date), and "S.Curry 17.1.1994" refers to a paper in which Curry referred to this specimen by a manuscript name. I note that in 1994 Curry published an internal report entitled The technical curation of the declared rare and priority flora in the W.A. Herbarium; and B. acanthopoda is indeed a priority flora. All of this seemed plausible... except that the type specimen of B. acanthopoda was collected by George in 1986, so any name based on a specimen collected in 1993 cannot be a nomenclatural synonym; at best it might be a taxonomic synonym. Hesperian 13:32, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

FoA indicates that this is the 1986 type specimen. Clearly this specimen must have been published as a manuscript name at some point, and "From A.S.George 7.12.1993 S.Curry 17.1.1994" is supposed to tell me where. :-( Sorry for thinking out loud on your talk page. Hesperian 13:37, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I think I've got it. The species was put on the Declared Rare and Priority Flora List for Western Australia by those persons on those dates. Gosh, what a great help you've been! Hesperian 13:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


 * They say that talking to yourself is the first sign of madness ;) Melburnian (talk) 07:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * That's can't be right: it implies that I haven't previously shown signs.
 * I'm still not really satisfied; I can't find copies of the list(s) for 1993 and 1994, and I can't seem to web up anything that ties George and Curry to them; so it is still speculation. Possibly back then a botanist would add a name to an internal list through an internal process.
 * Hesperian 07:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I couldn't come up with anything, except this document which mentions Dryandra acanthopoda ms in a listing c. 1995 Melburnian (talk) 07:42, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Hibbertia scandens
Hello Melburnian. Thanks for correctly pointing out that reference #1 does not specifically mention the "unpleasant odour" as resembling that of naphtha. Therefore, I edited the page again to make mention of the naphtha after the citation. I have personally experienced the odour on a specimen of Hibbertia scandens on North Stradbroke. Please do not delete it again. If you have a suggestion on resolving the matter to our mutual satisfaction, I would be glad to pursue it further. Many thanks. Deceglie (talk) 14:49, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Well done! Nice intermediate solution. I'll keep looking for a proper citation. :-) Deceglie (talk) 02:33, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Talkback
MVG Seems quite pointless to me in its entirety though I've tried to do some cleanup

I've good friends around Melbourne I hope they are freezing their balls off cos it's bloody cold here. SimonTrew (talk) 06:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC) SimonTrew (talk) 06:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Umbrella Tree (band)
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Plant and Garden wiki
Hi Melburnian, I'm writing to you because you've edited many of the plant articles. I wanted to let you know about a plants-specific wiki site which you might be interested in contributing to. The site focuses specifically on how to grow any plant. Since Wikipedia is not a how-to, and articles are not allowed to be written as a guide on how to grow plants, two years ago I started http://www.plants.am - a wiki solely to address that topic (much like how wikitravel.org is solely to advise tourists visiting a country or city on their destination).

An example of how the sites differ can be seen immediately by comparing the Wikipedia article on Tamarind, with the Plants.am Tamarind article. Many of the articles currently on the site are placeholder articles taken from Wikipedia which are being rewritten from scratch, or shells of articles using new templates. However, a core of new articles like the Asparagus article (which still has a lot of room to grow) are being created, and the undertaking is huge. Perhaps you have some materials you can add which are not appropriate for Wikipedia. If you have any questions at all about this new resource, feel free to contact me on my user page here or on Plants.am. Thanks! --RaffiKojian (talk) 20:52, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Kerang accident
The items in the "Trial" paragraph are quoted from the trial of Talk:Kerang rail accident. They come from various source as the trial proceeds day by day. Once complete, do you agree that they can be added to the Article itself? Tabletop (talk) 06:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Twelve Apostles (Victoria)
Hi Melburnian, thanks for the information and update, I haven't been there and most google image searches for "Elephant Rock Victoria" appear to mistakenly turn out an image of the Island Archway (pre-collapse). Thus the mistake on my part! Judging by the results of the search, it must be a common mistake.
 * Yes it seems to be - it did look somewhat like an elephant from the rear view, and it was probably the feature in the area that looked most like an elephant after the "trunk" part of Elephant Rock collapsed many years ago :) Melburnian (talk) 04:01, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * I'll be adding more like those images from the bush over time. I haven't been so productive in the last few weeks due to exams. I've generally been focusing on Fungi recently, but as spring/summer comes again I should have greater opportunity for Australian flora. Let me know if there are any particular species that you want me to look out for. It's easy to walk straight past something if you don't know what it is. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:37, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I will be definitely doing some more alpine walks as the weather gets better again. I went up to the tarn shelf (mt field nat park) but was confronted with a downpour and extremely poor visibility moments before arriving at the Nothofagus gunnii, so I didn't get any photos of that in it's deciduous stage. Anyway, I'm writing back again as I clicked on Eucalyptus regnans and noted that "Tasmanian Oak" was included as a common name. As far as I know this name is used as a blanket term for three species, E. delegatensis, E. regnans and E. obliqua. http://www2.gunns.com.au/timber/tasoak.html is a ref for that.  Noodle snacks (talk) 11:44, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

1925-26 & 1943-44 bushfire info
Nice contributions :] I've incorporated the info into articles for national bushfire seasons for each season. Information specific to a particular event or day or season I recon would go best in it's own article, like "Black Sunday" for the 1925-26 season, and info on a regular season should go in the national season article so we can later incorporate info on the bushfire season around the country, not just Victoria. Cheers. Nick carson (talk) 08:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure, what were the circumstances of Black Sunday Feb-March? In the past fires have been ignited on a particular day, then continue to burn for a period of time, these large ignition events are usually named, even if the fires continue to burn afterwards. Nick carson (talk) 10:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm, that's a real definition-bridger isn't it :/ What do you reckon? Nick carson (talk) 13:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

redlinks
Any interest in this? Hesperian 07:27, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes thanks, I can see a few articles that I would want to pursue amongst those. It would be good to do the same for Australian flora redlinks across Wikipedia, but I have no idea if that would even be possible. Melburnian (talk) 08:37, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm disappointed. I anticipated that the articles at the top would represent surprising gaps in our coverage; and therefore creating them would counter systemic bias. Instead the articles at the top are redlinks in areas with deep coverage; and therefore creating them will increase systemic bias. Hesperian 12:18, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Arisaema Tortuosum
Thanks for creating quick small article. I had taken the photo last year, but did not know the name. I searched it on web, and identifying that it is not available on wikipedia, I thought of putting it there. Aniruddha.Raste (talk) 14:41, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Following up from your ANI post
Have you tried using a different browser to see if the issue's there too? Might only affect the browser you usually use. Cheers. lifebaka++ 02:41, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

B. prionotes
Thanks for buying in there; it was great to get some solid feedback. Hesperian 11:35, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries - I printed out the 18 pages, read it through and circled any glitches or gaps as I went. There were very few circles.--Melburnian (talk) 10:35, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Interview
Hi. I'm doing a study about Wikipedia (particularly about sysops) for my Masters in Communications and Media Studies at Monash Uni, and was wondering if you would be so kind as to take some time to talk to me. I'm mostly interested in what your day-to-day activities are and your relationship with other sysops and editors. It shouldn't take more than 30 minutes.

Please let me know if you're interested/willing. It would be immensely appreciated :) Cheers, --In continente (talk) 08:26, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

remaining vandalism
Here. Timeshift (talk) 05:04, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that --Melburnian (talk) 05:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Ta
Ta. How's your watchlist looking this morning? Hesperian 04:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Naming Conventions. RFC: Removal of exceptions to "use common names" passage.
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Demonym of Melbourne
Hi, Melburnian. You may have already seen one or more of these questions, but if not, I wonder if you have any clue. If not you, of all people, who then?
 * Talk:Melbourne
 * Reference desk/Language.
 * Talk:Melbourne, Derbyshire

Yours hopefully. -- JackofOz (talk) 11:03, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks
For your info and actually reading the ref I would be fascinated to see how many and what australian species of plant could or could not survive the air of new delhi - it might be a brilliant test - it is getting to me i can tell you - even after a small bit of rain SatuSuro 09:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * You could always head up to the Himalayas to get some fresh air and while you're up there you could get a picture of this. Melburnian (talk) 10:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)